County Of Yazoo

County of Yazoo, acting through its Board of Supervisors and doing business as Yazoo Sheriffs Department, is a U.S. local government entity in Yazoo City, Mississippi that receives federal grants as a prime recipient for airport infrastructure, emergency watershed protection, and rural development projects. The county is not a federal contractor and does not hold federal contract vehicles; its entire federal footprint consists of grants from the Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation, and Corporation for National and Community Service.

The county's grant portfolio centers on two mission areas. Airport infrastructure grants from the Federal Aviation Administration's Southern Region fund runway and taxiway pavement rehabilitation, taxiway and runway lighting systems, airport beacon reconstruction, hangar construction, drainage and erosion control, and airport master plan updates at Yazoo City Municipal Airport. Representative FAA awards include a $368,198.95 project grant (CFDA 20.117, Airport Infrastructure Grants program) awarded July 29, 2026 for construction of a 3,000-square-foot sponsor-owned hangar with completion scheduled July 28, 2030; a formula grant awarded August 23, 2024 for runway, taxiway, and apron pavement reseal and resurfacing with completion targeted August 22, 2028; and a project grant awarded July 3, 2023 for taxiway lighting rehabilitation, runway lighting rehabilitation, and airport beacon reconstruction with completion targeted July 2, 2027. Emergency watershed protection work comes from the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service through cooperative agreements funding erosion stabilization, road and bank stabilization, and debris removal across multiple Yazoo County sites following tornado and storm events. Representative NRCS awards include a cooperative agreement awarded September 4, 2025 for erosion stabilization on Deer Lake Drive (completion August 26, 2026) and another awarded September 5, 2024 for recovery measures and debris removal with completion targeted October 29, 2026. The county also received an American Rescue Plan Act economic relief grant from FAA in December 2021 for airport operations, personnel, cleaning, and debt service during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Customer concentration is pronounced. The Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service accounts for 39 of the county's 70 total awards (93% coverage across top five agencies). The FAA's Southern Region holds 14 awards, the broader FAA 5 awards, the Corporation for National and Community Service 4 awards, and USDA Rural Housing Service 3 awards. Recent activity is sparse — one award in 2026, four in 2025, seven in 2024 — with five awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. The county holds one sub-award (1% of the footprint), a September 2025 equipment sub-grant. Combined dollars obligated across all seventy grants total $14 million, reflecting the modest scale of individual project awards typical of local government federal grant recipients.